Some commentators argue that retail, as we know it, is dead and that the future of shopping is online. They suggest physical shops will continue to lose out to online competition. Others argue the future of retail is not so bleak and that it will consist of physical shops complemented by online.

Is your Linkedin profile making you money? Linkedin is the leading social media network for business professionals and it boasts some 225 million+ members. You must have been living under a rock over the last 5 years if you have not received an invitation to connect on Linkedin.

Traditionally, schools have been associated with teaching at the primary level, as a way to share knowledge in an organised and systematic way. Formal schools existed in ancient Greece, Rome, India and China. Similarly, Islam developed a strong culture of education focussed on the importance of sharing knowledge.

This guide shows you how to calculate a worker’s holiday entitlement and pay. It also explains notice requirements, how you may impose restrictions on when workers can take their holiday, and the relationship between annual leave and sick leave. Finally, the guide demonstrates how to pay leavers for any untaken holiday.

Social media marketing and mobile marketing seems to have taken over the digital marketing world; this concept, time and again, has proven to be a myth. Email marketing, up to today’s date, still manages to be one of the most important ways to get your product or service into the consumer black box.

The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) and the 26 local district councils have urged employers to make sure they have all the information they need to effectively manage the risk from vehicles in workplaces.

If you’re on Twitter, then you’re probably noticing an abundance of Vine videos. Vine is a free social media app that launched in January 2013 on iPhone and June 3rd 2013 on Android. It lets you record six-second videos, which play on a loop. Vine is user friendly and allows brands to be creative and innovative. Vine videos are so short and repeating that after a few views, the messages of the video clips get stuck in your head like a jingle does.

Data protection laws affect how businesses and other organisations are allowed to make use of personal information. You must follow these rules if your business stores or processes people’s details – ie keeps customer or employee records.

For the past 6 weeks 30 people from the creative sector are working in what we are calling ‘Creative Labs’ happening at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, The Clinton Centre, Enniskillen & The Strule Arts Centre, Omagh. Their brief is to shape some new concepts for products or services for the Leitrim / Fermanagh / Omagh area or indeed beyond. which is truly new, different and inspiring and could become a viable business / income stream.